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Thursday, April 21, 2011

Now it's time for the stuff I was really excited to see at the Japanese Street Festival: the costumes.Oh my goodness the costumes. Not the legendary stuff that you see at cons such as Dragon*Con, but a notable effort by most anyway. Though I guess it's not that surprising when you realize that the street festival is probably one of the few avenues where people can dress as Goth/Lolita/Anime/Sci-Fi as they want and no one will question them.

I, in fact, wanted to where my Yukata SO BADLY to this thing since I wouldn't get any weird looks (for once), but it was just too darn cold. And unlike those festival princesses I did not have enough devotion to the cause to wear it anwyay. I am a chicken. I do no like to be cold.

Still let's admire some of the people who did go balls to the wall with some great stuff!

Nice Goth inspired showing

I have no idea who this guy is trying to be but LOOK at this hair. I love it.

Super cute kimono-esque outfit made out of butterfly fabric

Cyber-Goths were out in FORCE and had by far the best costumes.

Inu-Yasha! Love these 2 with their masks and full body costumes.

Those are unfortunately some of the only costume pictures I took this year. See when you're at a con you feel it's much less weird to ask 'can I take your picture?' - it's almost something cosplayers want to have happen because they've worked so hard on their costumes. Here people were just walking around doing their thing and I almost felt like taking their pictures would imply that they're dressing up to put on a show, a display - and not just doing it because it spoke to them.

But I have been told a time or two I think too much so who knows.

Look forward to my next post though as we get back to makeup and my first ever pair of CIRCLE LENSES!

"I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best." --Marilyn Monroe

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